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To: Lane3 who wrote (93183)	1/1/2005 12:35:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793834

Wow," said Craig Berman, spokesman for Amazon.com, when he was told that donations to the Red Cross through the company's Web site had topped $8 million by Friday morning. Not all the donations to Red Cross came through Amazon.com. I saw Apple doing it on their website, and so did Tower Records. Nationwide, donations to Red Cross were more than double what they got through Amazon, but that's not meant to dismiss the assistance that Amazon gave them. Other charities weren't so lucky. The Catholic Charities website crashed due to the volume of online donations and was predicted to remain overwhelmed for days.

To: Lane3 who wrote (93183)	1/1/2005 12:38:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793834

>>Elders' Knowledge of the Oceans Spares Thai 'sea Gypsies' From Tsunami Disaster The Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami, a newspaper said Saturday. By the time killer waves crashed over southern Thailand last Sunday the entire 181 population of their fishing village had fled to a temple in the mountains of South Surin Island, English language Thai daily The Nation reported. "The elders told us that if the water recedes fast it will reappear in the same quantity in which it disappeared," 65-year-old village chief Sarmao Kathalay told the paper. So while in some places along the southern coast, Thais headed to the beach when the sea drained out of beaches - the first sign of the impending tsunami - to pick up fish left flapping on the sand, the gypsies headed for the hills. Few people in Thailand have a closer relationship with the sea than the Morgan sea gypsies, who spend each monsoon season on their boats plying the waters of the Andaman Sea from India to Indonesia and back to Thailand. Between April and December, they live in shelters on the shore surviving by catching shrimp and spear fishing. At boat launching festivals each May, they ask the sea for forgiveness. info.mgnetwork.com What you and I learned years ago from (my guess is) reading Life Magazine -- I think that's where I read about it, maybe Reader's Digest? -- is considered ancient lore of the sea. Hooray for mass media. We don't always appreciate how lucky we are to have it.

To: Lane3 who wrote (93183)	1/1/2005 12:42:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793834

>>British 'angel' saved hundreds from tsunami with classroom knowledge Sat Jan 1, 5:13 AM ET LONDON (AFP) - A 10-year-old British schoolgirl saved the lives of hundreds of people in southern Asia by warning them a wall of water was about to strike, after learning about tsunamis in geography class, British media reported. Tilly, who has been renamed the "angel of the beach" by the top-selling tabloid The Sun, was holidaying with her family on the Thai island of Phuket when she suddenly grasped what was taking place and alerted her mother. "Last term Mr Kearney taught us about earthquakes and how they can cause tsunamis," Tilly was quoted as saying by The Sun. "I was on the beach and the water started to go funny. There were bubbles and the tide went out all of a sudden. "I recognised what was happening and had a feeling there was going to be a tsunami. I told mummy." Her intuition was enough to raise the alert and prompt the evacuation of Phuket's Maikhao beach and a neighbouring hotel before the water came crashing in, saving hundreds of people from death and injury. According to The Sun, no one on Maikhao beach was seriously hurt by the tsunamis that have left more than 125,000 dead and millions homeless around the shores of the Indian Ocean. The girl's geography teacher, Andrew Kearnay from Surrey in northern England, told the paper he had explained to his class that there was about 10 minutes from the moment the ocean draws out before the tsunami strikes. news.yahoo.com Thank goodness for geography teachers, as well. He might have also told her that the first wave is usually not the worst one. If you survive the first one, keep going, don't stop.